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Re: Transfer-Encoding chunked: preserved in the wild?

Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Mon, 25 January 2021 10:08 UTC

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Seph Gentle writes:

> I want to lean on some collective wisdom here. Is this a bad idea? Does 
> anyone know if middleman proxy servers ever move chunk boundaries around ?

I would not do it if I were you.

I realize we're on the server siden, but Varnish Cache will not propagate
chunked boundaries unharmed.

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